A well-known member of the international Perl community, Damian
first came to prominence as the winner of the 1998, 1999, and 2000
Larry Wall Awards for Practical Utility. The best technical paper at
the annual Perl Conference was subsequently named in his honour. He
has been a member of the technical committee for The Perl
Conference and a columnist for former "The Perl Journal".
He is a keynote speaker at many Open Source conferences,
author of the books
"Object Oriented Perl"
and "Perl Best
Practices", and co-author of "Perl Hacks".
In 2001 Damian received the first "Perl Foundation Development
Grant" and spent 20 months working on community projects for the
betterment of Perl.

Between 2001 and 2010 was also an Adjunct Associate Professor with the
Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University, Australia.

He currently runs an international IT training
company – Thoughtstream – that provides programmer
training from beginner to masterclass level throughout Europe, North
America, and Australasia.

Much of his time over the past decade has been spent working with
Larry Wall on the design of the new Perl 6 programming language and
producing explanatory documents and presentations exploring Larry's
design decisions.